You will do great! Experience is the greatest teacher. Some of the mid career change teachers I work with are the best professionals I have worked with.
I, too, am waiting to hear about my acceptance into an MA in clinical mental health counseling program. I should hear in the next week or so...
even though I already have a masters in education I am very excited about this career change. I never had the opportunity to quit work and go to school full time to do what I really wanted to do.
Definitely use the loan money to pay for a cleaning person. Your kids will be fine. You will be a good role model for them! I always had something to talk about with my kids when I took classes at night for salary advancement. It was even more meaningful when my older one was in college and I had a really terrible professor who told me my "vision" statement I wrote about my school was crap. I stood up for myself and proved it was taken right from my district's goals. My son said, "Oh Mom, you just have an as***** professor!"